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Conventional and Objective Invariance: Debs and Redhead on Symmetry

Lutz, Sebastian and Hartmann, Stephan (2009) Conventional and Objective Invariance: Debs and Redhead on Symmetry. [Preprint]

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Abstract

This review is a critical discussion of three main claims in Debs and Redhead’s thought-provoking book Objectivity, Invariance, and Convention. These claims are: (i) Social acts impinge upon formal aspects of scientific representation; (ii) symmetries introduce the need for conventional choice; (iii) perspectival symmetry is a necessary and sufficient condition for objectivity, while symmetry simpliciter fails to be necessary.


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Item Type: Preprint
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Lutz, Sebastian
Hartmann, Stephans.hartmann@lmu.de0000-0001-8676-2177
Additional Information: To appear in Metascience (2010).
Keywords: Objectivity, invariance, conventions, symmetry
Subjects: General Issues > Structure of Theories
Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances
Specific Sciences > Physics
General Issues > Conventionalism
Depositing User: Stephan Hartmann
Date Deposited: 27 Jun 2009
Last Modified: 12 Jul 2024 17:55
Item ID: 4735
Subjects: General Issues > Structure of Theories
Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances
Specific Sciences > Physics
General Issues > Conventionalism
Date: January 2009
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/4735

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